oint
verbUK /ɔɪnt/
Etymology From Middle English ointen, from Anglo-Norman oint or Old French oint, past participle of oindre, from Latin unguere.
- They oint their naked limbs with mothered oil.1697, Virgil, “The Third Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- to make his excuse more likely, he caused his legges to be ointed and swathed, and lively counterfeted the behaviour and countenance of a goutie man.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 25, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC: